‘Modern foods sold in supermarket are no more than a cocktail of chemical’
Have you heard about Maggi mee, soft drink and potato chips before? These are examples of popular modern food that most people out there really enjoy take. One good reason may be people nowadays are busy with their daily life forcing them to choose ready food. Choosing ready food rather than traditional one gives them extra hours for leisure, family and economy-generated activities.
Many of our most popular foods are contaminatedcontaminated, v1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material. 2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials. 3. an infective surface or object. .....Click the link for more information. by a cocktail of potentially harmful chemicals, a new study warns today.When we are confronted by a brightly coloured and attractive food item, it’s easy to ignore the actual ingredients that go into the making of the product. And of course it’s not mandatory for the manufacturers to list the chemicals that go into making additives like colors or flavors. We know the product is laden with chemicals of course, and we also know that they are bad for us, but the attractive looking food tempts us to buy. What’s worse is that these foods are often targeted at children.
There are those who live on processed foods. They could begin their day with bread and butter, have colas, chocolates or ice-cream with lunch, or perhaps have instant noodles and soup in lieu of lunch. In the evening they could snack on ready-made foods like namkeens and deep-fried samosas. And dinner could well be at a restaurant that are restaurants use colours and flavours lavishly. People who eat like this will get into plenty of trouble after some years for examples health trouble.
Take bread for instance. White bread, biscuits and cakes are made from refined flours in other words, maida. Maida is whole wheat flour refined to such an extent that most of it’s vitamins, minerals and fiber are removed. Colas and chocolates not only are full of chemicals (it’s all there on the label) they contain caffeine as well. Caffeine is said to be mildly addictive. As for those ready-made fried snacks, one can only pray that they are manufactured hygienically and not kept on dirty paper or plastic or on poisonous (printing ink is the culprit) newsprint before packing. And even if they are all perfectly made and properly packed, deep fried food contains hydrogenated fat. Cholesterol raising stuff.
What are the authorities doing you ask. If processed food is harmful, what is it doing on the shelves? Well, the authorities assure us that chemicals are present in foods within ‘safe limits.’ That’s scary.
While there is some justification for the use of preservatives and perhaps even stabilizers and emulsifying agents they bind fat to water for the purpose of improving texture in some foods, there is no justification for using colours and flavours in food. The colours and flavours are simply there to make food look delicious and taste good even if the real ingredients which it purports to use are not present.The real reason why the colors and flavours are used is to give the give the psychological impression that certain ingredients are present in the food. For example when brown color is used in bread the aim of the manufacturer is to give the impression that the bread is the whole-wheat loaf that it proclaims itself to be. Even if a ‘natural’ colour like caramel is used, the consumer is being misled into thinking that this is atta (whole-wheat) bread. A faint yellow colour is often added to cakes to give the impression that the cake has a sufficient quantity of eggs.
‘Modern foods sold in supermarket are no more than a cocktail of chemical’
Have you heard about Maggi mee, soft drink and potato chips before? These are examples of popular modern food that most people out there really enjoy take. One good reason may be people nowadays are busy with their daily life forcing them to choose ready food. Choosing ready food rather than traditional one gives them extra hours for leisure, family and economy-generated activities.
Many of our most popular foods are contaminated contaminated,
v 1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material.
2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials.
3. an infective surface or object.
..... Click the link for more information. by a cocktail of potentially harmful chemicals, a new study warns today.When we are confronted by a brightly coloured and attractive food item, it’s easy to ignore the actual ingredients that go into the making of the product. And of course it’s not mandatory for the manufacturers to list the chemicals that go into making additives like colors or flavors. We know the product is laden with chemicals of course, and we also know that they are bad for us, but the attractive looking food tempts us to buy. What’s worse is that these foods are often targeted at children.
There are those who live on processed foods. They could begin their day with bread and butter, have colas, chocolates or ice-cream with lunch, or perhaps have instant noodles and soup in lieu of lunch. In the evening they could snack on ready-made foods like namkeens and deep-fried samosas. And dinner could well be at a restaurant that are restaurants use colours and flavours lavishly. People who eat like this will get into plenty of trouble after some years for examples health trouble.
Take bread for instance. White bread, biscuits and cakes are made from refined flours in other words, maida. Maida is whole wheat flour refined to such an extent that most of it’s vitamins, minerals and fiber are removed. Colas and chocolates not only are full of chemicals (it’s all there on the label) they contain caffeine as well. Caffeine is said to be mildly addictive. As for those ready-made fried snacks, one can only pray that they are manufactured hygienically and not kept on dirty paper or plastic or on poisonous (printing ink is the culprit) newsprint before packing. And even if they are all perfectly made and properly packed, deep fried food contains hydrogenated fat. Cholesterol raising stuff.
What are the authorities doing you ask. If processed food is harmful, what is it doing on the shelves? Well, the authorities assure us that chemicals are present in foods within ‘safe limits.’ That’s scary.
While there is some justification for the use of preservatives and perhaps even stabilizers and emulsifying agents they bind fat to water for the purpose of improving texture in some foods, there is no justification for using colours and flavours in food. The colours and flavours are simply there to make food look delicious and taste good even if the real ingredients which it purports to use are not present.The real reason why the colors and flavours are used is to give the give the psychological impression that certain ingredients are present in the food. For example when brown color is used in bread the aim of the manufacturer is to give the impression that the bread is the whole-wheat loaf that it proclaims itself to be. Even if a ‘natural’ colour like caramel is used, the consumer is being misled into thinking that this is atta (whole-wheat) bread. A faint yellow colour is often added to cakes to give the impression that the cake has a sufficient quantity of eggs.
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